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This article, and the one from the other day (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176526 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176526) inspired a little idea: bit
by altay 18y ago
This article, and the one from the other day (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176526 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176526) inspired a little idea: bite-size exercise.
You subscribe to a (Twitter?) feed of simple, two-minute, quick-break-from-your-desk exercises, like "do 20 pushups", "walk up and down a flight of stairs 3 times", or "jog around the block." These exercises are explicitly designed for busy folks like us who spend too much time sitting in front of a computer.
You get a task like this every few hours. When you complete the task, you reply to the message. You can see who did the exercise, poke friends who haven't yet done it, encourage each other. Office-mates could make it a shared break.
Maybe there's a "step it up" button, which increases the intensity (like on a treadmill) -- you go from 20 pushups to 30, for example. Eventually, use historical data to customize exercises.
Thoughts?
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoI like it a lot. I doubt it would catch on though. A good rule of thumb is that things that encourage people to be healthier or smarter will not be popular. The things that gain popularity are tools that allow people to be lazier and stupider. Social networking is a way for morons to say stupid things to one another with less effort. Google allowed idiots to search the web without knowing anything about boolean search terms. etc.